Text reflow woes (or: I want bullets back!)y

[Aaron Janse]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020, at 10:27 AM, Sean Conner wrote:
>   First question---how to tell the server the width?  Well, one solution:

On one hand, I like the idea of the server doing the wrapping.

It would allow viewport-specific fixed text. For example, two things
that server-side wrapping would allow that are currently used in the
Gemini speculative spec:

- viewport-width-specific dividers (a bunch of dashes)
- indented paragraphs or trailing-indent bullet points

On the other hand, server-side wrapping has the following drawbacks:

- broadcasting viewport width goes against Gemini privacy values
- clients can no longer download a gemini blog then view it at
  different widths
- this could open up room to server-side trickery, such as indenting
  fixed-width content, which I don't think is a good idea

Also, speaking of privacy, does Gemini work over Tor?